>> Study, study.
School and if hands on, hands on.
Never turn down anything.
You hear that community theater is working on something, work with them.
You hear that professional theater is looking for extra people to strike a set.
Work with them.
Get any if that you can, as much as you can, as fast as you can because it is all going
to become helpful for you in the future.
A technical director will usually have a very strong base in one thing.
For example, mine is sound engineering.
But others will have a strong base in lighting, strong base in set construction.
Hydraulic mechanics actually is another one for technical directors.
So it just depends on what you feel that your are drawn to and then from there you have
to learn everything you can about lights, about sound, about sets, about,
you know, even hydraulics in some cases.
Rigging. Just so you can move forward on a regular basis.
Theater in general is a lot of networking.
It is who you know, it is people tend not to use people that they do not know
and they are not comfortable with.